Improvement in harvesters



UNITED `STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. F. SIBRLING, OF DOYLESTOWN, OHIG.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,893, dated November 1, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SEIBERLING, of Doylestown, in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Reaping and Mowing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

0n account of the upand-down motion of the. reels ot' harvesters it is difficult to operate such reels either by band or other gear.

The main object of my invention is to provide ailexible pulley for the baud ot' a harvester-reel. I have also made an improvement in adjusting the traek'clearer of mowing-ma.-v

chines.

My invention consists in a peculiar construction and arrangement of flexible pulley and of adjustable track-clearer for reaping and mowing machines.

In the accompanying drawings, 'Figure l is a side elevation of'niy machine with the flexible pulley and adjustable track-clearer attached. Fig..2 is a detached view ot' the tlexi' ble pulley.

My reaping and mowing machine has two wheels, A, with the cutter beam and reel placed in front of the wheels.. A standard, H is supported on the cutter-beam, and apulley-wheel, G, with the reel-shaft G', supported thereon. Attached to the lower part of this standard H are two small pulley-wheels, E andF. These small wheels work in a staple, a, upon the lower end of which is a bolt passing through an elbow-piece, I, Fig. 2, and a rubber spring, K. The band Dpassesaround the pulley-wheel C upon the main axle of the machine and receives motion therefrom. It then passes under the small wheels E and F, and up over the pulley-wheel G upon the shaft ofthe reel.V By this arrangement the spring K and small wheels E and F give the band D an elastic bearing. The spring Kis sutciently rm to give proper tension to the band D, and yet it will yield enough to prevent breaking or stretching the bandv as the tension is increased by a change in the position of the cutter-beam and the relative position of the pulley-wheels.

My pulley arrangement is perfectly exible, and its proper action'is not disturbed by the vertical play ot' the cutter-beam, and the consequent rocking ofthe standard H and upper pulley, G.

The track'clearer consists of a proper shoe, It, and two fingers, t', united to the shoe by a hinge-joint, L. A series of notches, e, is arranged to meet the adjustable stop h, and supportthetingersatauydesired height. Aslot,g, allows the stop l; to move backward and forward upon the set-screw m. rThe motion ot' the tingers is indicated by red lines in the drawings.

Having thus fully described vmy invention,

2. The use ofthe adjustable stop h, in combination with the shoe and the notches e for adjusting the track-clearer to any desired height, substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this lll th day of July, 1864.

J. F. SEIBERLING.

Witnesses:

SAME. H. MILLER, FERNANDO CLINE.A 

